DARE TO BE A FORCE OF NATURE
Our mission was to select an ecosystem, and analyze it for how humans were impacting it. From this, we were to create a plan to solve the issues we encountered. In addition, we were also instructed to actually take action on the subject, and do something that would make a difference.
THE PROJECT
For our project we decided to make a film that discussed human impacts on ocean life. The video would also briefly discuss solutions for these impacts.
The three issues we tackled were plastic dumping, ocean acidification, and toxic waste dumping. There are more details in the video (obviously) and its description.
The three issues we tackled were plastic dumping, ocean acidification, and toxic waste dumping. There are more details in the video (obviously) and its description.
KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS
Ecosystems: Ecosystems are combined with abiotic factors. These are all the non-living factors of the area. These can include everything from the weather and climate to rocks. The biotics factors are anything that is living or that was living. These inlclude the flora (plants), and fauna (animals), of the ecosystem |
Energy Flow: Energy produces convert energy either from the sun (photosynthesis) or from chemicals in the environment (chemosynthesis) . These are referred to as Autotrophs, and are the primary producers in an ecosystem. From there, energy moves up the trophic levels. These represent the general levels of organisms and the niches (or jobs) in the ecosystem. First level consumers give their energy through consumption to second level consumers, and the process continues. At the top of the process is the apex predator.
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Reflection:
One thing I have to do is work on my time management, because I had to film the night before the assignment was due, even with the extension (this was becasue other people were using the set). I could have also worked on better communication with my team mates because I was not properly recipricating my requests and often times forgot that I had a group. Thats not to say that they were a bad group, for the most part. We did colaberate on the script, reasearch and a bit of the filming. But often times I would have to prod my group memebers to add to the reasearch or help me clean the script up. Overall it was a tad stressfull but fun to do.